truffle-huffing surrender monkeys with family values. jim? >> hundreds of thousands of people opposing same sex marriage rallied on the streets of paris today. france's president is pushing a plan to legalize same-sex marriage and adoptions. ♪ ♪ mama mia >> stephen: just to be clear, in france the people with the pink signs dancing to abba are the anti-gay protesters. [ laughter ] [cheers and applause] when it comes to the sanctity of marriage, it turns out the french are just like us! they know that it's adam and eve not adam and yves. [ laughter ] the french know that god ordained marriage to be between one man and one woman and that man's mistress, who is also the woman's mistress. [ laughter ] but it'sy tasteful. [ laughter ] but it's not just their opposition to gay on terror. jim? >> in li, france stepped up military moves to stop islamic fighters tied to al qaeda. >> france this week dispatched 2500 troops and commenced air strikes. >> the u.s. is very pleased that france is doing this, i think to a degree surprised. >> stephen: mais oui, to a degree surprised the us is. [ l

except for the number one threat to america: bears! [cheers and applause] jim? >> scientists say panda blood could help stave off illness. theyv'e discovered a powerful antibiotic that exisits in the bloodflow of giant pandas. >> stephen: that's right. pandas have super antibiotics in their blood, and all this time they were pretending they needed our protection-- "ooh, shelter us! we'll die if someone looks at us too hard!" [ laughter ] and are they offering to share their super-resistant blood? no! they're just waiting for us to be wiped off the face of the earth by super clap that won't harm them! it'll be planet of the apes, only the apes are pandas, and this time the planet is earth! [ laughter ] h0p$8& [cheers and applause] >> stephen: welcome back, everybody. thank you so much. [cheers and applause] my guest tonight is a senior editor for "the atlantic." tonight's interview will be anything but pacific please welcome ta-nehisi coates. [cheers and applause] thank you for coming. as i said, senior edit for the atlantic right here. >> yes. >> stephen: you've got this great me

surely as jim kabesil died for our sins. this is how we'll see it. >> this is ten years -- it's accurate the way a movie can be accurate. it's ten years into two hours. there's good old fashioned boots on the ground. the key piece of information that enabled us to find the compound in abada bad was in the files all along since 2001. it's many, many different facets that contributed to finding this compound. >> stephen: you've been attacked by liberals and the ant-enhanced interrogation crowd out there. all right? one of things i love about your movie is it has the liberals cojones in a door hinge. you had to include scenes of torture in the movie. you had to, it happened, right? >> it happened. >> stephen: if you didn't include it? >> it would have been white washing history. >> stephen: and the liberals would have screamed bloody murder as if you were torturing them. >> it was part of the history. we wanted to tell the story respectfully and honestly. since it's part of the history we had to show a few sequences of enhanced interrogation but there's many techniques that led to the compo